The Forgetting Time

Critics Review

• If you took to The Lovely Bones, you’ll be completely engrossed by The Forgetting Time

  InStyle

• When I wasn’t reading The Forgetting Time, I was itching to return to it. And when I was reading it, my mind was exploding with questions about what’s possible, what’s probable, and how our lives are caught between the two. Provocative, evocative, and fresh, Guskin’s book is an explosive debut

  Jodi Picoult

• Irresistible . . . Part mystery and part meditation on a mother’s love for her child, this clever, heartfelt book kept me turning pages long into the night

  Kate Morton

• For fans of The Lovely Bones, this psychological mystery will have you hooked until the case is closed

  Cosmopolitan

• A beautiful tale of the bond between a mother and her young son as well as a gripping mystery . . . Reading The Forgetting Time becomes a personal journey as you try to remember all that you’ve forgotten

  Diane Chamberlain

• Original, gripping and moving — you’ll be hooked from the start

  Essentials Magazine

• Sharon Guskin’s debut is the literary equivalent of the sensation you get when, after stargazing from some hillside on a clear night, you’re suddenly hit with the terrifying and exhilarating scope of the unknowable. A truly remarkable, dizzying and exquisite page-turner

  Téa Obreht

• Amazing . . . An epic story about relationships

  Elle

• What if what you did mattered more because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding across decades and continents? . . . The Forgetting Time is about memory and forgetting, grieving and letting go, and the lengths a mother will go to for her child

  Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Train

• Gripping, deft and moving

  New York Times

• A magical, wise, page-turner of a novel that brings to mind the early work of Alice Hoffman. I absolutely loved it. A very moving, soulful, and beautifully-made debut

  Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion

• The kind of book that will make you do a big ugly cry

  Red Online

• A bold, captivating debut . . . Guskin amps up the suspense while raising provovative questions about the maternal bond and its limits . . . You’ll be mesmerized

  People Magazine

• Provocative and suspenseful

  BBC.com

• A spellbinding ride. Guskin’s beautifully rendered and wonderfully told novel explores the mysteries of how we connect to one another in the deepest of ways. An amazing book

  Mary Morris, author of The Jazz Palace

• A cracking read

  Prima

• Readers will be galvanized by Guskin’s sharply realized and sympathetic characters with all their complications, contradictions, failures, sorrows, and hope. Deftly braiding together suspense, family drama, and keen insights into the workings of the brain, Guskin poses key and unsettling questions about love and memory, life and death, belief and fact

  Booklist

• Captivating

  Book of the Month, Candis

• A near perfect book club read. It has the essential ingredient: a controversial theme guaranteed to provoke discussion among readers (a trait it shares with Jodi Picoult’s bestsellers)

  The Bookseller

• A compelling, dynamic, and intriguing debut novel

  American Booksellers Association

• Sharon Guskin’s debut is an incredible Russian doll of a novel, beginning as a seemingly ordinary story of maternal struggle, it soon unfurls into a fascinating tour of reincarnation, a compelling murder mystery, and an examination of the familial bond. Like Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, at its core it really is just superb fiction

  The Herald

• I love this book. It is absolutely spectacular. It’s a page-turner but also incredibly thought provoking. It left me completely changed — and isn’t that why we all read in first place? The Forgetting Time is a book you’ll want to talk about with all of your friends

  Octavia Spencer